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Marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law
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exogamy
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law [syn: intermarriage ] [ant: endogamy ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Exogamy is a social arrangement where marriage is allowed only outside a social group. The social groups define the scope and extent of exogamy, and the rules and enforcement mechanisms that ensure its continuity. In social studies exogamy is viewed as ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1865, Modern Latin, literally "outside marriage," from exo- + -gamy . Related: Exogamous (1865). Apparently coined by Scottish anthropologist John Ferguson McLennan (1827-1881) in "Primitive Marriage" (see endogamy ).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law 2 (label en biology) the fusion of two unrelated gametes
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Exogamy \Ex*og"a*my\, n. The custom, or tribal law, which prohibits marriage between members of the same tribe; marriage outside of the tribe; -- opposed to endogamy . --Lubbock.
Usage examples of exogamy.
Fison may after all be right in referring the partiality of a Fijian grandfather for his grandson in the last resort to a system of exogamy and female kinship.
Challis developed his study more particularly with reference to the earlier evolution of Totemism, and he was able by his patient work among the Polynesians of Tikopia and Ontong Java, and his comparisons of those sporadic tribes with the Papuasians of Eastern New Guinea, to correct some of the inferences with regard to the origins of exogamy made by Dr.
Kayapi, he is the product of an exogamous uniona mating outside the incestuous kinship group of the Xemahoaand, just as in some other cultures a child of incest would be a child of shame, so here the child of exogamy comes in for stigma.